The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-07-29
ODDS AND ENDS.
The governors Of Idaho and Nevada ar

| The state 81 New York maintains fourteen
insane asylums.
More than 800 persons had mumps at ono
time in Rome, Mich, recently.
The legal rate Of interest viii be 6 per
cent. in Michigan alter Sept. %.
The first American lodge Of FreeNIasons
was established in Boston July 30 l7a3
1t is said there are more causeloss and cruel
evistions in New York city than IN Ireland.
Idaho has a population Of $1,000 and thirty
three newspapers, one to every 2'io0 inhao't-
ants.
An elevated road is to be built in Los
Angeles and operated by electricity 10 Mon
rovia
Twenty sportsmen Of Foster county. OAK,
turned out the other day and killed 2.3ji go
/ phors.
A failure to vaccinate is punished at
Phoenix, A. T., by $500 fine or six months
In Jail.
Three miles Of bookcases, eighteen feet
high, cannot hold tho books Of the British
museum
It has been calculated that if 100000 per-
sons should clasp hands they could reach
around the globe.
Hillsdale, Mich. has a great curiosity in
the shape Of buff Cochin chicken with f0nr
/ legs and four wings.
A hy at Elboron, n j., IN church ua- rho
other day observed 10 land ON bald beads
which represent slGl 10000
a tramp giving the name Of George Davis
was arrested IN Chamler,hurg, Pa, after
lively race for stealing a Bible.
A St Louis Mich dentist adyatses
weekly the names Of his patient. and tho
number Of teeth extracted for each
The first known circulating library Is said
/ to be that Of st. Pampbilus Of Cu-ae0. who
/ in so A. D. collected 10000 volumes 90 lead
/ out
Seats in the San Francisco stock board oro
valued at from 5000 % $1,000 ln thodays
Of the mining craze they used 70 command
$4,000
The Piute population in Nevaln hs in-
| creased nearly 300 since the census Of i,,0
I On that date il was 900 &c IS estimated
now 40 900.
Lecsburg Ga. has Gve men whose oeere-
/ gate weight Is 1850 pounds. and they m as
urc thirtyone feet ami ffo inches an afer-
age height Of six feet and fhre inches
each
/ There IS q negro man living near Coleman.
/ Ga. who i. the father q thirty-four children.
/ Tie is 81 years od, has Dbl, third wife vfh
babe at BIER breast, and IS Us octiFe as n0st
men az 80
Kcnesawpost. G. 4. r.. ofDmv.'la. nl.las
F adopted Pert Zeros and Katie Funk as tho
daughters Of the post. ami hara presented
them with blue sashes with glt hrer n-
,criptious.
Tie victims in the Comst.rk mime have
averaged one n week through Che twenty
seven years that the lode has been WORKED
AZ least 1900 miners haye hoon sacrificed
there by fire. gas, dead air. falls. aring in.
explosions or accidents % machinery.
Tue paper in the United States having Tho
shortest name is The An, German weekly
published iu Milwaukee That city also pos
sosses the paper with the Longest t.lc 10 is
called Die Deuische Amoriaani -he Genrrha
und luiustrie Zcitung. For-.hrirt dor Zat
For sunstrole the simplest remedies aro n
cold bath and ice applications. for heat oy-
hausti0n rest aud tonic are the best remedies;
for heat apoplexy any treatment ahmed %
drawing the blood from the brain is fhc most
useful II is best 10 take medical advice Do
f order 90 obtain the most speedy recovery.
Ore rich I'm nickel and cobalt bias been
found near Hot Springs a tunnel is now
. !. &C.
and already several hundred tons OF GRE are
on the dump. Analysis shows clearly pr
cent Of nickel, which, il is said. makes this
the richest nickel ore ever found in America.
A st. Louis company is working the ores.
Fairmomt park Of Philadelphia contains
I 5000 acres and is eleven miles long Central
park Of New York includes $50 acres. costing
! Sl5o000o0 for the land and improvements.
The Chicago parks cover 1900 acres. and
those of st. Louis about the same Prospect
park, Brooklyn. include nearly 600 acres,
and Druid Hill park of Baltimore C,0 acro.
An analyst who reads character from
handwriting has been examining Gen. B0u-
hangers signature Tie find, thHt the writer
has energy and resolution joined % great
benevolence Coustancy Is a markell char
acteri-tic, while a desire 90 command ami q
consciousness Of personal worth oe also in-
dictated. There Is also shown % tendency 90
mock at men and things in a mildly -atri.al
way.
Gilbert and Sullivan are said, on the uu-
thority Of a London newspaper MAN. who is
very close 10 theDOylcy Carte management,
90 be preparing am opera on an American
subject with special reference t1 the Wild
West craze. which Buffalo Bill ha, made
fashionable in England Cowboys. scouts
and good and bad Indians niIl ngIp in tick
tensiycly. and DO will be- produced smulfane-
ously in London aud New York
An ancient Spanish spur along aIrh some
pieces OF ancient crockery and portions OF "a
human skeleton. We're piowei UP ly n farm
lab0re- near Austin, Tex, the other day
The spur. rust eaten is uniike anything else
I'm this age, and is stated by ant.quariam 90
belong % the Spanish era OF three centuries
ago 10 is foot from tip TO tip. and the
rowd is half foot boz diameter The pur
is supposed t. have been worn by the man
portions of whose bones were found with b.
STORIES or CHILDREN.